Intelligent Virtual Agents (Virtual Agents 99)
The Centre for Virtual Environments
Salford, United Kingdom
Final Call For Papers
13th September 1999
http://www.salford.ac.uk/cve/va99/
Sponsored By
AgentLink,
Deneb Visual Interactive Systems Ltd,
GEMISIS,
NICVE,
Simulation Solutions Ltd,
VR-News,
Keynote Speaker
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Professor Demetri Terzopoulos
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto
Topics of interest include (but not limited to)
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Virtual and physical agent interaction
Perception in autonomous virtual agents
Mixed reality with virtual agents
Intelligent virtual agent architectures
Intelligent virtual actors
Emotionally driven synthetic characters
Novel applications of virtual agents
New tools and technologies for the building of virtual agents
Human interaction with virtual agents (e.g. voice recognition)
The use of virtual agents for training
Virtual agents in shared worlds
Biologically inspired virtual agents
Virtual ecosystems
Applications within industry: Film, Manufacturing, Fashions etc
Paper Submission
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If you are interested in contributing please send an extended abstract
1000 - 2000 words or final paper electronically, in Word, HTML or
Postscript to: va99@angmar.iti.salford.ac.uk. Final papers should be
about 4000 words. The deadlines for submission are given below
Programme Committee
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Ruth Aylett, Centre for Virtual Environments, - Programme Chair
Daniel Ballin, Centre for Virtual Environments
Marc Cavazza, University of Bradford
Dave Cliff, Hewlett Packard Labs, Bristol
Kerstin Dautenhahn, University of Reading
Chris Hand, Napier University
Mike Luck, University of Warwick
Divine Ndumu, Bristish Telecommunications Laboratories,
Paolo Petta, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Peter Wavish, Philips Research Labs, Redhill,
Mark Wells, Televirtual, Norwich,
Christopher Winter, Cyberlife Technology Ltd
Important Dates
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Submission of Final Papers
or extended Abstracts 11th June 1999
Notification of accepted papers 16th July 1999
Proposals for Demonstrations/Exhibits 6th August 1999
Submission of camera-ready full papers 20th August 1999
Deadline for registration 20th August 1999
Intelligent Virtual Agents workshop 13th September 1999
Publication
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All papers will be in the formal proceedings and considered for later
publication in a special journal issue, details of this will follow.
Contact person
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Daniel Ballin,
The Centre for Virtual Environments
Business House
University of Salford,
Salford
M5 4WT, UK
Email: d.ballin@iti.salford.ac.uk
Tel: +44-(0)161-295-2918
Fax: +44-(0)161-295-2925
http://www.salford.ac.uk/cve/va99/